600 MARQUIS DE SAPORTA. 



He saw in the grand succession of vegetable forms a great and pro- 

 found design, related to the inorganic world and its mutations on the 

 one hand, and to the animal kingdom on the other. He sums up this 

 conclusion in his " Le Monde des Plantes " in the following words, 

 which may serve as an example of his style and of his habit of thought 

 in the wider problems of his science : — 



'•' Mais, si Ton remonte de phenomene en phenomene plus haut que 

 les appareuces mobiles et contingentes, il semble que Ton aboutisse 

 forcement a quelque chose d'entier, d'immuable et de superieur, 

 qui serait I'expression premiere et la raison d'etre absolu de toute 

 existence, en qui se resumerait la diversite dans I'unite, eternel pro- 

 bleme que la science ne saurait resoudre, mais qui se pose de lui-meme 

 devant la conscience humaine. La serait la vraie source de I'ideal 

 religieux ; de cette pensee se degagerait d'une fagon lumineuse, cette 

 conception de notre §-me a laquelle nous appliquons instinctivement le 

 nom de Dieu." 



Saporta was Correspondant de I'Institut de France, a Foreign 

 Member of the Geological Society of London, a Foreign Honorary 

 Member of our Academy since 1885, and an honorary or correspond- 

 ing member of many other societies on both sides of the Atlantic. 



1895. J. William Dawson. 



Three Resident Fellows have been returned to the list of 

 Associate Fellows on account of removal from the Common- 

 wealth, and one Associate Fellow has been transferred to the 

 list of Resident Fellows. 



The Academy has received an accession of eight Resident 

 Fellows, two Associate Fellows, and five Foreign Honorary 

 Members. 



The Roll of the Academy cori'ected to date includes the 

 names of 195 Fellows, 95 Associate Fellows, and 67 Foreign 

 Honoraiy Members. 



Mat 9, 1895. 



